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A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

~David Mallet

Topics: Example Forms Great Great Example He Inspires Noble People Public Sovereign Vile

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War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

~David Mamet

Topics: Arms Bell Diplomacy Failure Farewell Great Greatest Peace Some Stories Those Tragedies Tragedy War Whom

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I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

~David Mamet

Topics: About Better Civility Conservative Down Great Guy He Him Investigate Knowingly Meet Old Perhaps Said Sat Shame Talking Thing Understand Until Wow Years

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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

~David Mamet

Topics: Basis Civilisation Did Discover Discovery Drama End Goal Great He Hero Him Inevitable Kept Lesser Out Seen Set Something Specific Struggle Towards Which

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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

~David Mamet

Topics: Back Clock Country Crime Every Great Great Country Possession Roll Started

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People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics.

~David Maraniss

Topics: Always Bad Been Certain Certain Things Characteristics Clinton Done Good Great Had He His Major People President Say Separate Things Those Try Were Would You

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Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.

~David Mccandless

Topics: Amount Day Every Every Day Find Great Helping Huge Huge Amounts Information Me Personally Understand World

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Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that's hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag.

~David Mcfadden

Topics: Academic Being Big Both Families Great Hard High-Quality Match Means Named Offer Personal Price Programs Real School Tag Touch Without

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Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials.

~David Milch

Topics: Able Alive Among Aspects Bring Challenges Different Different Kinds Dilemma Faulkner Gets Gifts Great He His Kinds Man Many Materials Modern Modernity Pleasures Questions Race Speaks Themes Those Us

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Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.

~David Milch

Topics: Educational Given Great Humbling Learning Life Live Process

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